After Chi Xue and the others successfully entered the Profound Realm, the deathly gray mist and poison slowly dissipated, and clarity returned to their surroundings. Countless cultivators saw one another again, many of them looking bewildered. This was especially true of the cultivators from North Earth and North Heaven, though some seemed thoughtful, as if they had already figured out what had happened.
Next, everyone saw thousands of high-level God-level Stone Persons fighting fiercely. The faces of some from North Heaven and North Earth grew grim, and some even looked terrified. A few broke away from the battle line and fled into the distance.
Just as Old Man Ling and the others had guessed, many people from North Heaven and North Earth had been manipulated. Now, they finally understood that they had been deceived.
Though they had been manipulated, they were still afraid that people from factions such as Lingxiao Pavilion and Kirin Pavilion would settle accounts with them. That was why they were so terrified.
This time, Chi Xue and the others had deployed hundreds, even a thousand, high-level God-level Stone Persons. But Lingxiao Pavilion, Kirin Pavilion, and their allies had even more. Including the reinforcements that followed, they had three or four thousand in total, easily crippling the enemy Stone Persons.
Seeing that Lingxiao Pavilion, Kirin Pavilion, and their allies had so many high-level God-level Stone Persons, those who had helped "cover for Chi Xue" naturally panicked. They knew that so many high-level God-level Stone Persons could wipe them all out with ease, leaving them no chance to escape. After all, the Stone Persons were much faster than they were.
However, when they saw that factions such as Kirin Pavilion and Lingxiao Pavilion were not gathering an army or ordering the high-level God-level Stone Persons to charge at